Shut down and restart shortcut in Windows XP For more information, see: How to make a batch file.

If you want to create a batch file, you can add any of the above shutdown commands into the batch file with any other commands.

For additional information about the shutdown command, see our shutdown command page.Īfter completing the above steps, double-click the shortcut icon to shut down, restart, or put the computer into hibernation.

Once the shortcut is named, click Finish.

Click Next, and then type either Shut down, Restart, or Hibernate for the name of the shortcut.

To hibernate the computer, type the following line in the location text field. To restart the computer, type the following line in the location text field. To shut down the computer, type the following line in the location text field.

For the location of the shortcut, enter one of the following commands, depending on what you want to do.Below are the steps required for creating a shutdown, restart, and hibernate shortcut. Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 includes a command to shut down the computer through the command line, shortcut, or batch files.

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